Can a practice like origami help preserve natural surroundings declared a World Heritage Site? If those little paper birds are filled with messages to the central government to denounce the danger that threatens this place, yes.
The conservation NGO WWF nature began last September an international campaign in defense of the Doñana National Park, a World Heritage Site, to combat threats on one of the most important wetlands in Europe, such as overexploitation of the aquifer living the park or industrial projects such as dredging the river Guadalquivir, opening the Aznalcollar mine or gas project that affects this natural space.
And one of the actions carried out within this movement is the #Origamimigration, which promotes the symbolic action of making thousands of paper bow ties (origami) that will be sent to the Government of Spain together with the petitions signed to request the protection of Doñana "closing the more than 1.000 illegal wells that are drying the aquifer, canceling definitively the dredging of the Guadalquivir and stopping the gas and mining projects ".
The Department of the Environment of the City Council of Dénia and the Dianense environmental company Magic & Nature want the population to join this initiative, and for this they have proposed an original day next Saturday, November 12 in the Interpretation Center of the Natural Park Montgó, in the Bosc de Diana, from 10:30 a.m. to 13:30 p.m.
During the day, participants draw up paper birds with the message they want to get the central government to save the future of this natural space. There will be other free activities for all public and collecting signatures to support the proposal to save Doñana. So far there have been more than 100.000 accessions, "but we still need more", Point des WWF.
